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three or four turns of it fastened off with two turns 

 of the tying-silk and the refuse ends of the tinsel 

 closely broken off. If the fly to be imitated has 

 setae or whisks, lay on top of the hook four or 

 five strands of a cock's-beard hackle with the set 

 of the fibres inclining upwards (the beard hackles 

 are three or four coarse- fibred hackles on each 

 side of the throat just below the wattles of the 

 cock) ; bind them securely in place with successive 

 laps of the tying-silk until the tail-end of the 

 body is reached ; take one turn of the silk be- 

 hind and under the whisk and over the hook, 

 pulling the silk forwards so as to set the tail 

 well up. 



Lay along the top of the hook projecting to the 

 left the strand of quill, previously stripped of the 

 flue, of which the body is to be formed ; or, if the 

 body be of silk ribbed with tinsel, tie both in 

 similarly in one operation (fig. 13). 



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